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treatment which I advocate, these give im> no 

 anxiety whatever. On the slightest suspicion 

 suspected cases are put to bed for from two to 

 four days and rubbed, morning and evening, with 

 }>ure eucalyptus oil, and their throats treated 

 with 10 per cent, carbolic oil. It is only when 

 the cases are confirmed that I have the chil-i 

 rubbed once daily until the tenth day. The plan 

 of thus treating suspicious cases with eucalyptus 

 has the great advantage that it does not in any 

 way interfere with the confirmatory diagnosis of 

 the future, whether peeling, rash, or tongue. 

 Leopold Leopold House is one of our London Homes 



in which we have 300 boys, ranging from 

 six to fourteen years of age. On 4th February 

 of this year a case of scarlet fever occurred 

 there. The patient was at once rubbed with 

 pure eucalyptus oil and his throat treated with 

 10 per cent, carbolic oil. He was transferred at 

 once by my son, James A. Milne, M.B., B.S., &c., 

 to Her Majesty's Hospital in Stepney Causeway, 

 and there the usual treatment was carried out. 

 Besides other patients, there were at that time 

 in the hospital a case of tendon grafting, a hip- 

 joint case (operated on on 20th January), two 

 astragalectomies (on 27th January), a hip-joint 

 incision, and a paraffin injection for a bridgeless 

 nose. Further cases ensued in Leopold House, 

 and on 8th April thirty-five cases had occurred. 



